5 Interesting Religious Facts about Christmas
4. The gifting traditions
Exchanging Christmas gifts, greetings, drinks is not a modernized way of celebrating Christmas. This is a long old tradition practiced in ancient Rome. Initially this practice was banned by the church but later on these rules were broken and it became a way of life.
5. The Christmas tree fact
It wasn’t something that was started by Martin Luther, as many believe to be. It all began in 7th century A.D when a sacred tree was cut down and by 15th century, people started cutting trees and decorating them during Christmas.